Artist
Pascual Ross
Pascual Ross (b.1977) is a Spanish photographer, who lives and works in Andalusia.
His photographic practice is based on the people and the stories that each of us carry inside, this being his central axis of work. It reflects on the individual, his natural environment and the customs that condition him in one way or another. The minimal stories are the most important in the story line of your work.
Salt Eats Stone
This project talks about people who live by the sea and who have worked in this environment all their lives. Without working conditions or a work contract, since they were children they have earned their living with what the sea gave them. While society underwent a dizzying evolution, these people have lived day to day.
Currently these people are invisible to the system, the sea that fed them before now does not correspond to them. Due to the many changes that the ecosystem that surrounds them is undergoing, it is very difficult to obtain the minimum resources with which to get ahead.
There are many people who live almost in hiding and every day they go to the shores of the ocean that saw them born to be able to obtain any type of seafood or fish with which to get a little money.
It is a daily struggle that is getting tougher every time in a society where this type of people end up being a burden with those who do not know what to do.
Within this project, we have been selecting every year a number of 5 artists to represent what we believed to be interesting and worthy in photography at that moment. This year, we have decided upon new names from different countries: Dirk Hardy, John Robokos, Pascual Rosales, Sara Meinz, and Younes Mohammad. Their work has been carefully analysed and selected during an online portfolio review judged by international curators, to represent Photo Romania in Futures 2021.
Dirk Hardy is a photographer that shows a strong understanding of how to develop and present projects. Although a young artist, he understands how to build a
project and to visually present it to the audience. We particularly liked his Void project, which has been featured several times in international events, including an exhibition in Romania.
John Robokos is a Greek artist specialised in instant street photography. We chose his work because he attempts and succeeds in capturing beauty in dark and
depressing urban landscapes.
Pascual Rosales is a Spanish photographer focused on using visual storytelling about the stories that each of us can carry inside. His project Salt eats stone is a story about the people and the places consumed by time, where salt is the substitute for the passage of time.
Sara Meinz is another Spanish photographer whose work strives for documentary and portraiture. Through her work, she seeks the hidden messages of ordinary life, often exploring society, the human-made landscape, and nature’s resilience.
Younes Mohammad is a Kurdish freelance photographer working and telling the stories of the people that live in his country. Younes hopes that, through this work of exploring conflict and post-conflict humanitarian issues, the world may better understand what these people and their families have given for the Kurdish people, the region, and, in fact, for the world.